Ollie Wild <aaw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using git-svn for a while now to work on gcc. Last night, I did a > > git svn fetch > > and got the following failure: > > Found possible branch point: svn+ssh://aaw@xxxxxxxxxxx/svn/gcc/trunk => > svn+ssh://aaw@xxxxxxxxxxx/svn/gcc/tags/libbid-last-merge, 128810 > Found branch parent: (tags/libbid-last-merge) > 789aa951bbc6a49f791bf5109136335fc33222c5 > fatal: unable to create > '.git/svn/tags/libbid-last-merge/index.lock': File exists > read-tree 789aa951bbc6a49f791bf5109136335fc33222c5: > command returned error: 128 > > Naively, it looks to me like I've just got a stale lock file from a > previous run. However, I have no idea what the correct recovery > strategy is. Can I just delete the lock file? Do I need to do some > sort of data validation? > > I'm using git version 1.5.2.5 with subversion version 1.4.5 (r25188). Did you interrupt git-svn in a previous run? But you should be able to just remove it; git-svn should verify that the index is in a consistent state before it attempts to fetch again. -- Eric Wong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
